[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] opensm: mcast mgr improvements

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 07:31 Mon 31 Dec     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 18:16 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> > On 08:38 Sun 30 Dec     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 18:27 +0000, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> > > > This improves handling of mcast join/leave requests storming. Now mcast
> > > > routing will be recalculated for all mcast groups where changes occurred
> > > > and not one by one. For this it queues mcast groups instead of mcast
> > > > rerouting requests, this also makes state_mgr idle queue obsolete.
> > > 
> > > Looks like a nice improvement.
> > > 
> > > What testing has been done with this change ? Can you comment on any
> > > results ?
> > 
> > osmtest, basic ipoib, SA db and MFTs dump diffs. Didn't find any
> > problem.
> 
> What size topologies ? real and/or simulated ?

Both real and simulated. The real fabric was small.

> > > For which branches is this change being proposed ?
> > 
> > I think it should go to OFED 1.3.
> 
> Perhaps if there is sufficient soak time on real life topologies and
> other torture tests for this.

Now it looks we have at least one month up to 1.3 finilazing.

Sasha